A while back I had some comforts of home. We rented a T.V. and VCD for only Rs180 and at Rs10 a movie we rented four!! We rented an old Kashmiri film `Jab, Jab Phool Kilhe` (all about an american who comes to stay on a HB and of course falls in love!). It was neat to see all the same landscape and Boulevard of Dal Lake (not too much has changed!). I saw Shah Ruk Kahn's first film. A fairly new film `Mission Kashmir` (but the copy wasn't so great... I may have to rent it back home!)... And then an English flick (not really my choice but really there's not much selection for English films). Jackie Chan `Supercop`... seems to be mostly action films or cheesy ones (like Titanic!). It was nice to understand everything this time though!

It was crazy.. the whole family crowded around on the floor in the little room mesmerized (including myself). Right into the night we watched (most indian films are 3hrs long... we rented around 20hrs of film but it was already 7pm and we had to return it the next day at noon... that means some serious marathon watching has to happen!) I was hoping for the all american pop and chips but we decided on dinner first and then snacked on watermelon. I took a piece as it was being cut.. it ws so delidious that my mouth was watering waiting for the nest slice. It came but to my disappointment they had drenched it in salt... YUCK!!! By that time the shop was closed so no pop to my dismay! Not that we were able to last through the whole night! Mission K and Jackie were going to have to wait unti the next morning! Somehow we did it.. got through all 4... probably becasue we sort of gave up on Mission K... it skipped too much and was always going fuzzy.